A full-time trader shows how Claude Code and TradingView automate pre-market planning, but experience still drives the edge.
Trading experience first, AI secondHe insists AI won't magically make you profitable — it only sharpens an edge a trader already has.
Chain two scanners to beat the market-wide scan limitTradingView cannot scan the whole market at once, so scanner A's top gappers feed scanner B's strategy filters.
Promising backtests, deliberately narrow criteria2.48 profit factor and 54% win rate came from very strict rules on a handful of tickers, and he is still reiterating.
Executive SummaryAI
Shay, a full-time trader with more than 10 years of experience, walks through automating his trade planning process with Cloud Code and TradingView, arguing AI is "mostly just slop" without real trading knowledge behind it.
Setup needs a paid Claude or Codex plan (at least $20 per month; he uses the $100 a month max plan), a paid TradingView subscription from the essential plan at about 13 to 15 a month, the TradingView desktop app on macOS, and an MCP install copied from a GitHub repo with 2,900 stars.
Scanner A is a pre-market gap scanner for stocks that gap up more than five percent from the previous day, price above three dollars per share and over 50k pre-market volume, with tickers from Yahoo Finance and news catalysts from Benziga, saved each morning to a dated JSON file.
Scanner B filters those candidates against five trend join long rules (after 10 a.m., above yesterday's daily high, yesterday's close above the 200 SMA, above today's pre-market high and above today's higher day), and the Pine Script backtest on MU returned $1,200 total P&L over 14 trades with a 2.48 profit factor on $1,000 initial capital.
Moving the backtest to Python covered 32 watch-list tickers over the last 30 days on a $10,000 account at a 54% win rate, and both scanners were then scheduled — pre-market every 30 minutes from 8.30 a.m. for 12 runs a day, strategy scanner from 10 a.m. — with results pushed to Telegram via a bot.
Key Quote
“Remember AI is mostly just slop without specialized knowledge behind it.”
— Shay
Key Quote
“The thing is AI won't magically make you profitable.”
— Shay
Key Quote
“One is that TradingView cannot scan the entire market for you all at once.”